WALTHAM, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 11, 2006—
Impress Software, a leading provider of packaged
integration applications for SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) customers, today announced that it
has been selected by Aquarion Water Company to integrate its SAP and
ESRI systems. Aquarion will implement Impress Software's Impress for
GIS, a solution that enables businesses to relate asset information
between SAP and ESRI and streamline business processes that span both
systems.

Founded in 1857 and headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
Aquarion Water Company is one of the ten largest investor-owned water
utilities in the U.S., serving more than 219,400 homes and businesses,
or approximately 677,000 people, in 53 surrounding communities. As
part of a company-wide transformation spearheaded by its executive
team, Aquarion looked to increase the sharing of information across
the organization. After an extensive competitive review, Aquarion
chose SAP as its master system of record and recognized the need for a
tight integration with ESRI ArcGIS.

"As a utility, our mapping system is an important part of our
business, and with most of our data being stored in SAP, we needed to
find a robust and proven integration solution," said Howard J. Dunn,
Vice President of Operations and Technology, Aquarion Water Company.
"After evaluating alternatives, we determined that Impress for GIS was
the right solution to enable the seamless integration. We expect to
recoup our investment in about one year by dramatically lowering
operation costs, decreasing service times and increasing overall
efficiency."

Aquarion plans to implement both Impress for GIS modules -- Asset
Data Management (ADM) and Maintenance and Operations. The ADM module,
which relates asset information between systems and continually
synchronizes changes, will provide Aquarion with the data accuracy it
needs to ensure financial compliance and operational efficiency. To
improve productivity of its customer service operation, Aquarion will
also implement the Maintenance and Operations module to enable
geospatial analysis of work order and asset data and provide access to
SAP processes from ESRI's ArcGIS.

Impress for GIS will enable the use of ESRI's ArcGIS as a front
end to mySAP ERP, and allow ESRI users at Aquarion to create, modify,
manage, and analyze asset data and work orders. Through real-time
integration with SAP, Impress for GIS will enable the execution of
maintenance operations and facility management directly from the
ArcGIS maps while ensuring that functional locations, equipment, work
orders, and other geographical data elements are consistent across the
systems at all times.

"Spatial asset management is an important initiative for
utilities, but in order to realize its true value, they must reliably
integrate GIS and ERP systems," said Warren Utt, president and CEO of
Impress Software. "We're proud to offer Impress for GIS, a cost
effective solution that will help Aquarion achieve its stated mission
of efficiently delivering the highest quality utility services to its
customers."

About Impress Software

Impress Software is a leading provider of packaged integration
applications that enable quick and cost-effective integration of
project management and geographical information systems with SAP,
resulting in streamlined business processes across multiple enterprise
systems. Impress solutions allow integration to be completed at a
fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional EAI development
platforms. Impress Software customers include global leaders such as
Bayer, BP, Halliburton, Rockwell Collins, US Army and Valero.

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